Choreopoems: Augmenting Textuality with Movement

Carter-Enyi, Aaron; McFadden, Zari

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Title: Choreopoems: Augmenting Textuality with Movement
Author: Carter-Enyi, Aaron
McFadden, Zari
Date: 2018-03-15
Decade: 2010-2019
Abstract: In 1975, Ntozake Shange debuted For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf establishing a new intermedia genre: the choreopoem. A choreopoem is a unique approach to storytelling that departs from Western poetry by incorporating emphases on movement and nonverbal communication, using embodied emotion to connect with audiences. Shanges innovation is continued through the work of Jessica Care Moore (poet) and Aku Kadogo (choreographer, Spelman College) who has developed a techno-choreopoem entitled Salt City. The work celebrates Black culture in Detroit: the African-American presence in the city [and] techno-music that was pioneered by African-American men straight out of the Detroit Metropolitan Area (McFadden and Kadogo 2017). Kadogo was a founding member of the cast of Shanges For Colored Girls and has worked in the genre for forty years. This presentation analyzes the realization of ideas and text as embodied cognition through a digital case-study of Kadogos performance practice. Using annotated audiovisual recordings, movements are tracked through 3D video motion analysis (VMA) and correlated with performance texts and commentary from the authors, performers and audience. Keywords: Dance; Digital Humanities; Ethnomusicology; Language Interpretation and Translation; Performance Studies; Poetry.
Subject: Poetry
African American poets
African American arts
Performing arts--Study and teaching
Document Type: text
Format: application/pdf
Medium: born digital
Collection: Africana Digital Ethnography Project: Multicultural Materials
Institution: Morehouse College
Geographic Location: Georgia--Atlanta
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.mul:0002
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